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Columns of gas and ash 3 kilometers high were detected after two strong explosions from the Popocatepetl volcano, Mexico's Cenapred disaster-management agency said Friday.

When Malcolm X's grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years.

A judge on Saturday issued an order for the imprisonment of two waiters accused in the beating death of Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of civil rights activist Malcolm X, the Mexico City attorney general's office said.

BARSTOW Plata's Mexican food is as connected to the history of Barstow as the BNSF Railroad and Marine Corps Logistics Base, said Armando Gonzalez.

The weights are in for tomorrow's big flyweight fight at Plaza de Toros 'Eloy Cavazos' de Zitacuaro, Michoacan, Mexico and promoted by Zanfer Promociones and HG Boxing.

More repression against terrorist and illegal armed groups could be behind the strengthening of the presence of Mexican drug cartels in the country.

During the Great Depression, Mexican artist Diego Rivera was on a roll. In 1931, he painted a massive mural for San Francisco's Pacific Stock Exchange.

An elderly South Texas man has survived more than 200 bee stings when he was swarmed while mowing some grass.

Barely a quarter-century ago, Mexico's all-powerful presidents could run any of the nation's 31 governors out of office at will.

His troubles began in 1997, when at age 12 he plead guilty to setting fire to the apartment of his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, that resulted in her death in New York.

Quitze Fernandez, a columnist for the El Guardian newspaper in this capital of Coahuila state abutting Texas, picked up the phone in his newsroom one day.

A Mexican general took over all police and military operations in a chaotic western state on Thursday in a test run of President Enrique Pena Nieto's new security strategy to tame raging drug violence.

In " What Do You Desire ?" Emily Witt travels to San Francisco, attends a shoot for a pornographic video about "women bound, stripped, and punished in public," reflects on her own unsuccessful search for romantic love, and ponders the implications of a sexual culture where no desire is considered off-limits so long as all participants give their ... (more)

In a new collaboration with General Motors, Nissan will produce a version of its NV200 small commercial van that GM will sell as the Chevrolet City Express in the United States and Canada, the two automakers said this week.

The adjectives pile up as top editors, writers and free press advocates level their aim at the division of the Attorney General’s Office in Mexico responsible for prosecuting crimes against journalists.

A senior government official in Mexico was fired after his daughter abused his position to have a Mexico City restaurant shut down by health inspectors when she was denied a table.

Regina Martinez had a premonition that she was courting danger in the months before her death.

The Cannes Film Festival has had its first shock to the system, in the shape of Mexican director Amat Escalante's unsparingly violent drug war drama "Heli." The story of the devastation wreaked by narco-violence on an ordinary Mexican family, the movie paints such a bleak picture that one journalist told its director Thursday that she had cancelled ... (more)

After an eruption overnight, residents in a town some 50 miles -- or 80 kilometers -- outside Mexico City brace for a major eruption.

The 19th edition of MITM Americas, Meetings and Incentive Travel Market, will take place in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico from October 2-4 2013, sponsored by Guadalajara's Convention Bureau.